When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

One day we found them. They must of been holding a gook convention or something, cause it seem like the same sort of deal as when you step on a anthill and they all come swarming around.

Your eyes hold all the answers to my life's problems.

Imagination is not an icing on the cake of life but the oven in which it is baked.

The heart, not the head, must be the guide.

My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a coal-miners son should go to drama school.

But you are making assumptions without all the facts, and that's not a sign of intelligence.

Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them

Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one's life. In the flame of love, all fear is consumed.

Of course I am not religious — I don't in fact see how any scientist who thinks at all deeply can be so.

I started working in music very young, I was raised by a family of musicians and performers, so I guess it was more second nature than making an actual decision.